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Sharpening overview - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Filters
Sharpening overview
- [Instructor] Before we look at the sharpening filters, I'd just like to make a few observations about sharpening in general. Firstly, what it is and what it's not. So here we have and image, the left side has been sharpened, the right side remains unsharpened. I have achieved this by applying a filter mask, right here and you can see the right side of the filter mask is black. Now when we are looking at this at 'Fit in Window' view, we may not notice much different from one side to the other. And indeed looking at the video of this I'm not sure how much of this relatively subtle affect will carry across. But when we zoom in to 100%, we can clearly see that the detail on the left side is a lot crisper than that of the right. So sharpening achieves this through increasing the contrast of the edges. It gives you the illusion of a sharper or more punchy image. What it doesn't do is, it will not take something that is out of focus and bring it in to focus. Secondly, Photoshop has five…
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